what's happening at the workshop

What have you done to personalize your Acinonyx? This custom catguard was handcrafted by bassist Bill Hulett. Send us your mods and tell us what who helped make it special.  Stickers? Guards? A cool strap? Send photos and details to [email protected].  We'll have a Cat Show!!

Countrybasque sent us a link to an awesome bass solo recorded with his cat.  Check out the link here.

Jonathan Herrera has a hot take and an awesome demo of the NordyMute. We love the tribute to Jamerson!

"Here is a basic and repetitive example of "framing" chord tones. Approaching each pitch of a chosen arpeggio (Emin7 in this case) from a half step below (or above). A whole new more complex melodic sound is introduced that will instantly expand your vocabulary. I believe it's best to start right off incorporating it in the context a groove that you're committed to holding down so it always lands sounding like music, not exercises. Then as I did here, sprinkle in some of your "go to" licks. You will quickly see how nicely it falls right in as new, useful and interesting melodic content. Adam Nitti recently published a complete lesson video explaining and demonstrating it all very well, if inclined search it out. As he put it, it can just be thought of and executed from a geometrical standpoint, no need for over thinking, just play the note on either side of the chord tone, then the chord tone."
—Andy Irvine

The band Lawrence just made their debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live and bassist was sporting an awesome relic'd Devon Bass with our Nordstrand double NJ5SE (bridge) and NP5 (neck). This P5 is an instant classic!

"I put a Nordstrand 3 band preamp into my Ibanez SRCS806 6 string bass to see if it stands up to the hype. They didn’t offer the exact configuration I was looking for with their prewired options but the 3b-4b came pretty close so I went for it because it would still save time on soldering and I also wouldn’t have to hunt down all the other parts. I ordered two extra pots to change the bass/treble stack into two separate controls to match the layout of my 4 string and to go with the Ibanez's original configuration."
– BassLord
Find out if BassLord figured it out and what he thinks of the 3b preamp.  
Back in stock and more popular than ever!!

Are you following us on TikTok?  Meet our new creator #BrianKrahe. A great photographer, videographer and awesome bassist for #Krosis. Brian is taking our #StarLifterPreamp through its paces. We think it shines! Look for new videos of various products in the coming weeks.

We are curating our Swag collection now to have more of the items you want!
Along with wearables like caps and t's, we now have items like travel mugs, pint glasses, and our latest Specialized™ waterbottles and lasered bottlecap opener fridge magnets!